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Chapter XXVI

The Story Club Is Formed

Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to hum-
drum existence again. To Anne in particular things seemed
fearfully flat, stale, and unprofitable after the goblet of ex-
citement she had been sipping for weeks. Could she go back
to the former quiet pleasures of those faraway days before
the concert? At first, as she told Diana, she did not really
think she could.
‘I’m positively certain, Diana, that life can never be
quite the same again as it was in those olden days,’ she said
mournfully, as if referring to a period of at least fifty years
back. ‘Perhaps after a while I’ll get used to it, but I’m afraid
concerts spoil people for everyday life. I suppose that is
why Marilla disapproves of them. Marilla is such a sensi-
ble woman. It must be a great deal better to be sensible; but
still, I don’t believe I’d really want to be a sensible person,
because they are so unromantic. Mrs. Lynde says there is
no danger of my ever being one, but you can never tell. I
feel just now that I may grow up to be sensible yet. But per-
haps that is only because I’m tired. I simply couldn’t sleep
last night for ever so long. I just lay awake and imagined

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